Chloe Hedden

“So when you are alert and contemplate a flower, crystal, or bird without naming it mentally, it becomes a window for you into the formless. There is an inner opening, however slight, into the realm of spirit…We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen…What could be more heavy and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones…Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness?” --Eckhart Tolle

"Hedden communicates the language of light. She believes that light is the luminous self made manifest in this world. Zooming in close to a dense cluster of glittering refraction, or delicate transparency and shadow, Hedden renders these microcosms on large canvases with her muscular brush strokes. Her pieces are actual portraits of a par...

Idyllwild Arts Academy '98

Rhode Island School of Design
Illustration 2002

Scope Miami Beach with Stella Ripley Gallery, December 4-8, Miami, Florida — 2019
Stella Ripley, “Milky Way over Mani-Utenam” August 25-September 25, Quebec City, Canada — 2019
Stella Ripley, “Gémeaux de Minuit” July 25-August 25, Quebec City, Canada — 2019
Walker Fine Art, “Composed Hypothesis” May 31-July, Denver, CO — 2019
Stella Ripley, “Connective Tissues” May 25, Quebec City, Canada — 2019
Every Woman Biennial 2019 NYC (Formerly the Whitney Houston Biennial), May 19-29, New York City, NY — 2019
Messinger Gallery, “Solo Show” May 16, Boulder, CO — 2019
Aqua Art Miami with Stella Ripley Gallery, Miami, December, 2018
Texas Contemporary Art Fair with Stella Ripley Gallery, October 2018, Houston
Walker Fine Art, “Natural Occurrences,” November 9, Denver, CO — 2018
SOFA Chicago, “15th Anniversary Show,” Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery (Cordoba, Argentia), November 1-4, Chicago, IL — 2018
Gallery Vibe, “Season Premiere,” Naples, FL — 2018
The Other Art Fair, November 9-12, Brooklyn, NY— 2017
McNicol’s Building, “Tectonic Shift,” Denver, CO — 2017
“Rubber Stamp Art Projects,” Red Dot, Miami, FL — Art Basel Week 2016
Walker Fine Art, “Simplifying the Essentials,” Denver, CO — 2016
Walker Fine Art, “Shades in Time,” Denve...